Labour can’t see its cesspool of antisemitism

Believing the myth that the left is always virtuous, Corbyn’s comrades are blind to their racism

David Collier is a British Jew who devotes much of his life to chronicling the anti-Israel and anti-Jewish attitudes which have become epidemic in political and intellectual life.

Last week, he produced a 280-page report exposing a secret Facebook group called Palestine Live, a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel forum created in 2013 whose members included politicians and other members of the Labour Party and the left. This group was a veritable cesspool of antisemitism.

Collier reveals in copious detail its seething Jew-hatred. Members claimed the Jews were “demons”, that they were behind 9/11 and the 2015 Paris terror attacks, that they controlled the media and finance and were a “cabal” pulling the strings of American policy.

What’s more, members repeatedly drew on the rantings of white…

Want to read more?

Subscribe now and get unlimited digital access on web and our smartphone and tablet apps, free for your first month.